Via my mom, this impossible-looking contortionist.  While watching her perform, I found myself wondering if this video had been manipulated ...

George Carlin says what I'd like to say, but in a far more entertaining manner than I ever could:

Progressive pundits are chagrined to discover that the Boston Marathon bombers didn't have valid gun permits .  It was illegal for them ...

Here's a good primer on the basics of algorithmic trading , something that practically every programmer involved in electronic trading c...

There are days when I wake up uncertain what country I'm actually living in...

Via my mom:

Mr. Steyn is not happy with those who see the world through “Princess Fluffy Bunny” glasses.  A sample: The politicization of mass murder ...

Yum!  Just do it!

The very first time I ever visited Tallinn, Estonia, about 20 years ago back in the early '90s, I stayed in the Hotel Viru.  It was a me...

This time, it's not from APOD !

When I installed the roof lights on the FJ Cruiser, I ran the wires back through one of the steel tubes of the roof rack.  At the time, I tr...

I've been looking forward to installing the rock rails (or “sliders”) on our FJ, as they're one of the things that change the appea...

The stock FJ Cruiser tailpipe, for some unknown reason, dips down low in the back.  It's perfectly suited for getting snagged on somet...

I recognized everything up through the 1970s, and maybe half of the 1980s.  Everything after that was new to me (and didn't make my ears...

This is the third or fourth video of an Operation Smile patient I've seen.  I cry every time, just trying to imagine the joy brought by ...

If you wring out a sopping-wet washcloth in zero gravity?  Watch: On one level, this is a fascinating experiment and a great demonstrat...

Common name western swampheath, native to Tasmania.  Via BPOD , of course...

Chances are that you will not be able to figure out what this image represents.  Even if I told you that it was a heat map.  Even if I tol...

On our covered patio, just outside the door to our living room, we have a house finch nest.  The nest looks like it's about to tumble...